Classic Quotes

• No work which is destined to become a classic can look like the classics which have preceded it. In art, as in biology, there is heredity but no identity with the ascendants. Painters inherit characteristics acquired by their forerunners; that is why no important work of art can belong to any period but its own, to the very moment of its creation. It is necessarily dated by its own appearance. The conscious will of the painter cannot intervene.

  

  Juan Gris
  • Art
  • Period
  • Painters

• We don't want to impose our solutions by force, we want to create a democratic space. We don't see armed struggle in the classic sense of previous guerrilla wars, that is as the only way and the only all-powerful truth around which everything is organized. In a war, the decisive thing is not the military confrontation but the politics at stake in the confrontation. We didn't go to war to kill or be killed. We went to war in order to be heard.

  

  Subcomandante Marcos
  • War
  • Powerful
  • Struggle

• I love classic looks and I love glamour. I love being able to switch to a classic day to a really really nice glamorous look at night.

  

  Erin Brady
  • Night
  • Day
  • Glamour

• There's a new television generation coming in every five or 10 years, and the classic stories stand up to being redone.

  

  Rebecca Eaton
  • Television
  • Generations
  • Classic

• Yahoo to me, as the founder of a company, is one of the biggest opportunities you could have; it's one of those classic Internet companies.

  

  Nick D'Aloisio
  • Internet
  • Classic
  • Yahoo

• Bring down Mike Mann and we can bring down the IPCC, they reckoned. It is a classic technique for the deniers movement, I have discovered, and I don't mean only those who reject the idea of global warming but those who insist that smoking doesn't cause cancer or that industrial pollution isn't linked to acid rain.

  

  Michael E. Mann
  • Mean
  • Cancer
  • Rain

• When I was a lot younger, my parents raised me watching classic movies.

  

  Sara Paxton
  • Parent
  • Classic
  • Raised

• In the mini-series area, we are going to have a regular year-round, weekly presence on Encore of classic mini-series and a new mini-series that we are bringing. For the time being, I think the home of mini-series will be on Encore.

  

  Chris Albrecht
  • Home
  • Years
  • Series

• From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me.

  

  Cat Power
  • Country
  • Records
  • Western

• The preppy lifestyle has gone global. We feel that our business has grown so well because preppy travels so well. It's all-American classic.

  

  Tommy Hilfiger
  • Feels
  • Lifestyle
  • Preppy

• You must be classic. Put yourselves before the model in a workmanlike spirit.

  

  Andre Lhote
  • Spirit
  • Model
  • Classic

• My rule is always if you keep your basics classic. You can add seasonable and very trendy stuff and always look modern and updated, but if you're questioning something and its expensive, err on the side of classic.

  

  Melissa Rivers
  • Looks
  • Modern
  • Expensive

• I was into fantasy more than horror. I was growing up in the mid-'70s through the '80s, and I also got a healthy dose of that classic era of film.

  

  Arik Roper
  • Film
  • Growing Up
  • Classic

• What I don't find compelling is doing classical plays that everyone already knows - and people are following with the text in their hand because no one is listening.

  

  Joseph Fiennes
  • Listening
  • Classic
  • Following

• I feel like I hadn't given that many classic films, like, a really good chance. I watched 'Casablanca' a really long time ago when I was like, 12. I didn't like it that much, and then when I saw it again in class, I loved it.

  

  Miranda Cosgrove
  • Long
  • Film
  • Chance

• Like any classic you hope to get rid of all the varnish that's built up over the centuries where people expect it to be in a certain way. It's a mighty play. It's about a very old king who also happens to be a very old father, so you've got the state and the domestic levels in there together. It's a story in extremis. Everyone knows the end, there's only two people left alive.

  

  Geoffrey Rush
  • People
  • Together
  • Father

• This is the launch of the Doctor Strange film interpretation, of - in my view - a classic, which has been interpreted many times by other graphic artists and this is just our graphic interpretation of The Ancient One. I would say the whole approach is about a kind of fluidity.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Kind
  • Artist
  • Film

• Personally, I'm very classic. If I'm going to wear a suit, it's going to be classic, black, and fit very well. There's nothing like it.

  

  Michael Pitt
  • Black
  • Fit
  • Suits

• I was the classic midfield organiser who could also score goals.

  

  Michel Platini
  • Goal
  • Classic
  • Score

• A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

  

  Italo Calvino
  • Book
  • Saying
  • Finished

• Classic music somehow changed, and it changed between the first and the second world wars, and somehow what happened was that the hero that had been the composer, the hero now was the performer, and especially the conductor.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • World
  • War
  • Hero

• To only call Wizards, Aliens, and Starships engaging would be a real understatement--it is a delightful, funny, and immensely interesting romp through science and fiction. From candlepower to teleportation, all the way to the fate of the cosmos in the span of a googol years, this is a cornucopia of teachable material. It is also a reminder of the simple thrill of applying science to the world around us, real or imagined. A new classic.

  

  Caleb Scharf
  • World
  • Real
  • Interesting

• Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.

  

  Michael Berryman
  • Classic
  • Imitation
  • Flattery

• Jimi Hendrix is a classic example of a player in which everything he did, it was all in his hands.

  

  Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion
  • Hands
  • Everything
  • Example

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